Talbot's Angles

d a musicale?" ask

ing," responded Miss Ri with ready tact

e, though "Oh, Miss Ri," c

ing for me, if I played

t-only f

xpostulated, "haven't I know

e," Linda

n years, when you were yet in a state of in

e difference," L

is all nonsense. You don't make any bones

have the support

upport of Berk's voice; I

ything but college songs

odest pair," l

the rest, but the controversy was finally ended by Linda's consenting to sing one song if Berkley would do the same. She chose a quaint old English ballad as being in

f a former day as pleased their fancy. Over some of these they made merry; over others they paused. "My mother used to sing that," Berkley would say. "So did my mother

d the discolored pages of one of the old books. "How I used to love that; it i

up, and Miss Ri, we haven't seen to those papers. That music is a treasure-trove, Miss Linda. We must ge

? I had nearly forgotten that there were matters lik

nded you, and I have some sympathy with them caged up in a schoo

ly. "I am not used to boys, and any sort of cont

you be the little boy and I'll be the school-marm. Verlinda needs an objec

e. "Bring them into the sitting-room, Berk, and we will get them done with. I'm g

us errands, Miss Ri?"

't suppose because you collect my rents, and look after my le

Linda, that she makes a semi-annual visit to a fortune-teller or some one of that ilk.

s Ri. "You'll stand here talking all nigh

rs. Hill, Miss Linda? and did you ever hear

ndeed, but I never heard

is way. 'Becky, dear child, is so sympathetic, so interested in oth

Ri suddenly turned out the lights leaving them to grope their way to the sitting-roo

t was an all night journey down the river and up the bay, and therefore, Miss Ri would not

but Phebe, get some one to come and stay with you,"

lared Linda. "Phebe and I have often stay

nd after Linda had returned from seeing Miss Ri on her way, Bertie arrived. She was a nice wholesome girl who had been a schoolmate of Linda's and had spent many a day wi

said as she greeted her friend. "Why didn't you send m

see, and I didn't know how my experiment might turn out. I was afrai

week and you are not slinkin

to keep from having hysterics, and am

hat you were getting on very well for

principal really did think, and to have that much praise is worth a great deal," s

wn news from Miss Ri? What she

between those two generally goes on while I am at sc

cquisition, or would be if he coul

n love with him, I think, and has stipulated that h

Is she making a

ithout being allowed, being a favorite and liable to ta

rrectly, makes himself agreeable when the opportunity is afforded. It is rumored that his affairs are in better s

re now that he has th

ce or twice and is still hoping to recover the trunk which he thinks must be in Baltimore still. In the meantime h

arked Linda thoughtfully. "I can

le about him, Miss Parthy says. Sh

or a prince in dis

he was educated ab

t get the name located. I suppo

rs betimes. To Bertie was given a room opening out of Linda's,

a shutter. Next a door-knob rattled slightly. Though frightened enough Linda was no coward, and as she sat up in bed listening, her brain worked rapidly. It would be better to arouse Bertie than to go prowling around alone, and have her friend doubly alarmed.

tie sitting up and rubbing her eyes.

get up and put on some clothes quickly. I am su

ice. "We mustn't go down, Linda; we mustn't. Let's

oing to try to scare them away. I wish I had a pistol; I le

ely locked and barred; you know

me into my room and let's peep out the window." They extinguished the cand

ptoeing across the hall they went into this room at t

, drawing in her head. "Someone is at the front door. Co

?" asked Bertie in trepidation. "Sup

still outsid

girls listened at the front door. Yes, surely there was a very low murmur of

ng to do?" asked

't be scared, and d

are you go

blow into it while I open the window. As soon as it is up bur

'T S

ack shot the bolt and upon the silence of the night

ised voice. "Here, Mis

om the window clutched one anot

res appeared before the open window. "Hallo, in there,"

ing prowling around here at this time of night, trying our bolts a

ucky you don't see one of us weltering in gore, Linda T

giggle and pinc

Linda replied severely. "What right ha

ld make a point of coming around here after you had gone to bed to

what you were going to do," re

since, and-Do you happen to know Mr. Jeffreys? Here, Jeffreys,

ie Br

I would like especially to warn you against Miss Talbot. She carrie

inda with a gravity which brought a giggle from Bert

an, so it will not be difficult to identify h

rkley. "I'm awfully sorry, girls, really I am, that we frightened you. We tried not to make any n

r side, for-it wasn't a pistol. Please shut in

the world was it?" Berkley paused

th a bang and closing the window, while upon the quiet of the

ces," remarked Linda as the girls climbed the stairs. "That was m

dn't have missed it, scared as I was at first. I was dread

used by feeling something cold on her toes? A burglar was chloroforming them, and she let hi

of burglars now, I think, when we

safer feeling," a

eace," returned Bert

nough to arouse the girls, who, in fact, had not gone to bed when stentorian voice

a bag of wind would be sure to run from a flash in the pan,

erything all rig

l," answer

en the window was closed and the young men tr